Good Time Charlie’s claims chicken-fried steak crown

Was there ever a doubt? Good Time Charlie’s is the king of chicken-fried streak in the San Antonio area, as voted by mySA.com readers.

Good Time Charlie’s dominated the chicken-fried steak field of 32 for its second E-N bracket title in three years after winning the hamburger title two years ago.

And it wasn’t even close.

The fixture on Broadway ran away from the fried field of 32 in the Express-News bracket, and saved the best for the Fried Four, drilling Texas Land & Cattle by 76 percentage points in the semifinals, then running away with the title with a 94-point victory over Thousand Oaks Café, the Group 1 winner.

Good Time Charlie’s beat its five chicken-fried foes by an average of 55 percentage points.

For Good Time Charlie’s, it’s the second win in the three years of the E-N bracket madness. Two years ago, Good Time Charlie’s won the hamburger chase, but not with the same ease as this year, having to rally in the final five minutes of voting to beat The Sandbar.